Speaking from 54 years' experience, the world towards a more perfect union is a never-ending concern that involves each every one of us. Evidence that our nation is becoming a better place is everywhere. But each new day, fear is, as the Jersey poet said, lurking in the darkness of the edge of dawn. Your rising from bed every morning will give fear its chance to grow stronger just as it will afford faith its chance to blossom. You will make the choice to react to one or create the other, and because you are smart enough to earn your place on this college day at Yale University. You will sense the moment, and you will know what to do. In the meantime, ponder this front in the struggle against ceaseless fear, and ceaseless flow, in the coming months and years, veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will finally come home for good, at so many tours. And we know this...and we know this, some after many tours of the war and body he saw spent great portion of their lives.